Commonwealth v. Stays

OPINION BY

BENDER, J.

This matter comes before the Court on remand from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania following its vacatur of our prior decision, which affirmed the trial court’s judgment of sentence. The Supreme Court based its order on our conclusion that Stays had failed to preserve his challenge under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. In view of the Supreme Court’s direction, we now revisit that issue and restate our dispositions of Stays’ other claims to conclusively resolve all issues raised in this case.

Duane Stays appeals the judgment of sentence imposed following…